Quarry Section Trail Work Reports – 2023
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Date | Name | Trail | Hours | Work | Volunteers | Remaining Work | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-30 | Jennifer Brodbeck | Quarries Foot Path | 0.1 | Cleaned up cans and bottles at kids party spot. Removed a table. | Going to shop vac broken glass with climbers | ||
| 2023-02-02 | Charlie Crosby | CCC Trail | 0.5 | Cut and cleared a small blow down | |||
| 2023-02-15 | Jennifer Brodbeck | Quarries Foot Path | 3 | Removed 5 bags of trash and one table. Intentional fires have been reported to DCR, the fire warden, QPD, City Councilors and Quincy Fire Chief. Will need to continue to monitor for new intentional fires. | A new trail head needs to be designed, permits need to be pulled etc. Lt. Bender and I need to temporarily mark the trail upon completion of trailhead work and Granite Links trails. | Intentional fires are being set in this area. First noticed Dec. 15, 2022 with one area burned. By January 19, 2023 area had increased to 4 areas burned. On February 9, 2023 9 areas had been burned and 2 of those had spread. Lt. Bender has been notified and has gps walked the perimeter for the fire warden. Quincy Police Department has been notified, Quincy Fire Chief has been notified, Ward 4 City Councilor and At Large councilor Mahoney have been notified. Will continue to monitor this site. | |
| 2023-02-15 | Jennifer Brodbeck | Quarries Foot Path | 2 | Assessment of inaccurate Friends of the Blue Hills Map. Accurate trail has been hand drawn to reflect the new trailhead and ending Quarries Foot Path south of Riccuiti Drive. Trail Assessment needs to be adjusted according to DCR’s map and these out of date Friends of the Blue Hills maps need to archived as they are at best confusing, out dated and fake. | Quarries Foot Path will need to be correctly identified on the Friends of the Blue Hills map and adjusted accordingly to placement of new trail head off of Riccuiti Drive. Trail Assessment should be adjusted accordingly as Quarries Foot Path will no longer cross Riccuiti Drive.. New names will be assigned to trails north of Riccuiti Drive. I will have to work with DCR to see if bootlegged trails connecting Quarries Foot Path to Sawcut Notch can officially become a part of Quarries Foot Path and placed on the next DCR map. | Sawcut Notch saw two fires last year and the connecting bootleg trail from Quarries Foot Path to Sawcut Notch saw 1 unreported fire last year. Quarries Foot Path by Bunker Hill Lane AKA Adams path also saw 1 unreported fire last year. These areas need to be monitored in the spring for any intentional fire setting.. | |
| 2023-02-24 | Shubha Chungi | Pine Tree Brook Path | 2 | Worked on the wet area near 4084 to improve the water flow. The foot bridge constructed by someone was very tightly placed rocks obstructing the water flow. We made the stream narrow by clearing the leaves and debris and make it little deeper by digging. We removed and rearranged the rocks to step over the narrow stream by placing them strategically. Bob Quinn's guidance was the key to improve the flow. It appear to be working at this time but I will check again after the new storm if it is still functional. | Bob Quinn | I would love the expert opinion and comments on the work performed. Further work above and below the narrow stream may be needed to improve the water flow further. It can be better planned in spring once the snow is gone from the ground. | |
| 2023-03-23 | Bob Quinn | Pine Tree Brook Path | 1.75 | Worked on swale area where water crossing trail and making mud out of trail near #4084. Cleared inflow and outflow areas. Worked on building rock crossing. | Ongoing project to make this part of path easily passable without mud | ||
| 2023-04-15 | Bob Flagg | Crags Foot Path | 5 | Finished removing debris from ditch of broken culvert. Inserted new four foot segment of 8" culvert. Backfilled trench with dirt and stones. Rebuilt rock surround at inflow area. | Bob Quinn | A small depression over the existing site remains. Needs about three yards of fill to cap the site. Will get done ASAP. | We determined the original culvert was not a straight line but a bit crooked. |
| 2023-04-22 | Ruth Bigio | CCC Trail | 12.5 | Work on part of the CCC trail (from marker #4010 to 4023. Digging out Japanese Barberry, cutting back Multiflora Rose, pulling out small burning bush shoots, pulling out and bagging garlic mustard. | Kristen Macauley, Dustin Sweeney, Andrew Sciotti, Tracy Brown | Regular trail work keeps this section of the CCC trail is decent shape. | I will continue to work on the CCC trail in early May. After May 15, work is not allowed for the summer and into fall to protect copperhead habitat. |
| 2023-04-27 | Bob Quinn | Pine Tree Brook Path | 3.75 | Continued work on wet area near intersection #4084. Cleared the inflow and outflow of the small stream that crosses trail. Placed a couple of stepping stones to facilitate crossing the stream. | Marnie Bolstad, Shubha Chungi | Will monitor location to see how it works, and then make adjustments as indicated | |
| 2023-04-29 | Paul Brookes | Minichiello Path (FBH) | 0.5 | Walked trail. Brush cleared, no overhanging branches. Looks good. | The bridge at the Eastern edge of the Minichiello trail is now in dire need of replacement. Most all the planks are rotting, and three planks are missing. | I think the bridge is becoming dangerous and the needs to be replaced soon or the trail needs to be marked with a closed sign. | |
| 2023-05-05 | Ruth Bigio | CCC Trail | 5 | Continue to remove Japanese Barberry. Pulled out garlic mustard and placed it in bags. Cut back bittersweet. Burning bush is starting to grow in the area, mostly small plants, easy to pull out. | Mark Andrade | CCC site is in good shape for now. No work can be done here until later in the year in order not to disturb copperhead habitat. | As we remove invasive plants, other species move in. Bittersweet has always been there but it seems more prolific. |
| 2023-05-08 | Skip Maysles | Minichiello Path (FBH) | 3 | Bridge repair only, bridge that crosses one of the St Moritz Ponds near Willard St. It was reported that approx six decking boards were rotted and needed to be replaced. Upon removing the damaged boards, it was discovered that the supporting lumber was also water logged and damaged. Due to this condition, some of the decking screws were unable to properly secure the decking boards to the supporting lumber. Six decking boards were replaced. | Pete Tierney | It is recommended that this bridge be considered for replacement in 2023/2024. | |
| 2023-05-20 | Jennifer Brodbeck | Quarries Foot Path | 0.25 | I tried to clean up the kids party spot again but someone set the place on fire again. Needless, to say I didn’t complete much. | If the place can go without being set on fire every month the trash still needs to be picked up but the brush is gone at least. | This is the second time this year this path has been set on fire. | |
| 2023-05-28 | Jennifer Brodbeck | Quarries Foot Path | 2 | Work done in preparation for meeting with State Police. This area was set on fire again on May 26. 2023. Rocks which were once stable are unstable. Trees and limbs have the potential to fall. | 0 | Use caution in this area as this is the third fire in this area. Rocks have become unstable, new erosion is occurring and animals are displaced. | |
| 2023-05-28 | Jennifer Brodbeck | Skyline Trail | 2 | Work completed on Wampatuck Hill in preparation for meeting with State Police. Southeast slope of hill was set on fire on May 23, 2023. | |||
| 2023-05-13 | Michael Pratt | Crags Foot Path | 4 | Filled depression with four bags of fill. (depression left over from prior work on culvert reapair) | Maura O'Gara | ||
| 2023-06-11 | Joseph Nelson | Ridge Path | 2 | First lopped and brushed at the trailhead where the fire gate is. Reduced the overgrowth of grasses, saplings, and some poison ivy. Continued along the trail and did some occasional brushing work or flung loose branches and sticks off the trail. Continued past the 4047 trail marker where Ridge Path intersects with Pipe Line. In this looping area, we cleaned out a drainage structure being choked with leaves. | William Nelson | There is a dead tree in two segments hanging and leaning against a live tree. The dead tree could easily fall and crash onto the trail in the event of a heavy rainstorm. The reverse at the end of the trail could use some expansion and reinforcement. | |
| 2023-08-03 | Bob Vogel | Fox Hill Path | 7.5 | Cleaned out 6 waterbars on the west end that were filled to the top with stones and dirt. | Joanne Newton, Larry Petrone | We only hiked this west end (4096-4102) specifically to clean these watervars, which I had seen were full nf not working on a previous trip. | |
| 2023-08-10 | Bob Vogel | Sawcut Notch Path | 7.5 | Cut LOTS of greenbriar to keep it from encroaching into the trail. Also cleared a multi-forked tree top that had fallen into the trail between 4083 and 4133. | Joanne Newton, Ann Rega | Trail OK Rt 28 to 4133, except a large (24") diameter tree across the trail west of 4066. | Water flowing through the previously collapsed culvert west of 4066 That was repaired last year by Bob Flagg. 🙂 |
| 2023-11-12 | Joseph Nelson | Cedar Rock Path | 2 | Cleaned out drainage structures and raked leaves from lowland areas of the trail. We moved some trees and limbs that fell onto the trail off the path. | William Nelson | Some growth needs to be removed before the spring. Some fallen trees or hanging benches required saws and we did not bring saws today. | A woman needs to leash her Rhodesian Ridgeback. |
| 2023-11-26 | Shubha Chungi | Pine Tree Brook Path | 1 | Walked the trail to check for storm damage, debris, overgrowth etc Overall appears to be in good shape. | |||
| 2023-12-15 | Bob Quinn | Sawcut Notch Path | 0.75 | Cleared up water trough along south side of trail. Cut out briars, raked out area. Hopefully water will, stay off trail. | |||
| 2023-12-15 | Bob Quinn | Indian Camp Path | 0.5 | Cleared out inflow and outflow of culvert near #4086 | |||
| 2023-12-15 | Bob Quinn | Old Furnace Brook Path | 0.5 | cleared inflow and outflow of culvert |